Discuss your thoughts on today's activities (re: argumentative/persuasive essay, editing, etc.)
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Discuss your thoughts on today's activities (re: argumentative/persuasive essay, editing, etc.)
Discuss your thoughts on today's activities (re: argumentative/persuasive essay, editing, etc.)
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As an English teacher's daughter, I've come to use editing in everyday life. Whenever I read something, I'm constantly looking out for mistakes in punctuation, grammar, or word use. I find that editing is my favorite part of the writing process, the one that I use the most, and also the one that I spend the most time on. Editing plays a big role in writing because it's the last step before you turn you submit your essay.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Editing is my favorite part of the writing process. It definitely helps improve your writing and corrects your errors.
DeleteI agree that editing plays an important part of your essay. It makes you a better writer if you can spot the errors as you read anyone's essays. This is something that I wish I can improve on. I need to get in the habit of editing and revising more often.
DeleteToday's activities reminded me a lot of writing my essays in high school. Writing an argumentative essay is probably one of my favorites because I enjoy doing research on things. I think that today's lesson on editing was very helpful because editing helps an essay become the best that it can be.
ReplyDeleteSame here. It does bring back memories. Argumentative essay is also one of my favorite types of essay because of the researching part. It is quite enjoyable.
DeleteArgumentative essays were my favorite to write in high school as well! I enjoyed expressing my thoughts and opinions on a topic I felt strongly about.
DeleteArgumentative essays are also my favorite. I've always loved looking at the different sides of the debate.
DeleteToday's activities were very informative. I felt that I learned a lot about the argumentative essays and how they are meant to express how you feel toward the topic you've chosen. I have to keep in mind while choosing a topic that I would want to choose a topic that is something I have interest and have a lot to say about. I'm also kind of nervous about our first test that'c coming up. But other than that today's class period was very beneficial.
ReplyDeletePlanning out what your topic is, is very important indeed. It provides a stronger base for your essay if you talk about something you want to talk about.
DeleteI agree todays activities were very informative. I too am a little nervous about our upcoming test, but I'm pretty confident we will all do just fine.
DeleteI couldn't agree more. Today's activity is very informative on the editing process and argumentative essays. It is important to have a topic you are interest in otherwise you will probably get bored and frustrated.
DeleteI agree with you. Writer's should write an essay because it interests them. Having interest in your writing pays off because it feels easy and fun, which gives less to no stress at all.
DeleteThe session for today was very relaxing. I spend most of my time listening to the lecture, the classmates who were reading and do my classwork without rushing myself. also, i did learn something new. All in all, i thank my classmate Patty for choosing me as a winner for the post cards.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts on today's activity about editing is important for the final stage of the writing process. You look for errors in capitalization, grammar, punctuation as well as spelling. Editing them will make it easier for the editors to correct your essay.
ReplyDeleteWhen writing your essay, revising and editing is always crucial. The importance of this is that this helps the writer look over their work and see what works and what doesn't. I agree!
DeleteOverlooking your work is in fact crucial for any writer. I agree, it does help the writer see what works best.
DeleteToday's activities is very interesting. Aside from presenting my unfinished classwork essay to the class, I learned the difference between an expository essay and an argumentative essay. Unlike an expository essay, an argumentative essay must provide an extensive amount of research and facts. This can be similar to my research paper back in high school. When you are in the editing process, you must follow the C.L.U.E.S.S, and C.G.P.S. This is something that I wish I should have learn properly and concisely. Overall, I am thankful for learning and enjoying the class time.
ReplyDeleteThank you for stating the difference of an expository and argumentative essay! I was getting a little confused between the two types of essays.
DeleteI do too tend to confuse the argumentative and expository essay. Thanks for stating the difference.
DeleteI wish they taught me better about this in high school. It did seem a lot easier to take in today than before. And yes, thank you for explaining the difference.
DeleteI agree. Argumentative essays does require research and facts in order for you to be able to support an idea.
DeleteToday's main topic were about argumentative and persuasive essay as well as editing. Argumentative essay is one of my favorite forms of the four major essays. I like this type of essay because I get to argue my point as well as do some detective work, researching. Persuasive essay is basically trying to persuade your audience with whatever topic you have. Most of the time you persuading your audience by presenting the pros and cons of your topic. Editing is the last stage of the writing process and my favorite. I like this process because its brief and all you do is edit your writing.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Well said. Argumentative essay is being able to research on facts to use to support your idea. Persuasive essay as you have mentioned above is basically persuading your audience. Editing is the most important in all writing because it helps improve it.
DeleteI agree with you. Argumentative essays are meant to be solved in a analytical and persuasive way, in order to prove that you are correct. It is like you said, "a detective work" because it really is just finding for answers and proving it with evidence.
DeleteIn today's activities, I learned many useful techniques for editing and writing argumentative essays. One of the most useful techniques in editing is reading your writing aloud, so that you could find any flaws or anything that does not sound grammatically correct. Writer's should always ask someone to read their writing, which help them find for errors other people could spot. It is very useful to edit your writing because it allows for improvement and effective writing.
ReplyDeleteYes! I find reading your work out loud is great for better understanding and that it is better to let someone else proofread your work for errors, as you had stated.
DeleteYes, I definitely agree with you. It is a very helpful technique. You would not be able to miss any errors when your reading aloud.
DeleteThese techniques were very useful especially when you miss hidden errors in your essay. This is something that I need to apply for my essay because I constantly struggle during the editing process. Reading aloud helps to make your essay clear and concise while peer reviewing helps point out the missing errors and why is there an error.
DeleteActivities that we worked on in class were informative. We did individual reading, post cards, discussed the writing process: Stage 3. It was all together informative with extra ideas to think or add on towards my essay.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Today's topics also helped me gather more information on what to discuss on my essay.
DeleteTrue indeed! Having extra ideas will help us fill in the blank sections of our papers! A full paged essay is appealing to the teacher's eyes! It shows the amount of effort we put into our own essay.
DeleteToday's activities were really informative i think as well. I think that having many ideas gives you a wide variety of topics you can express when writing an essay.
DeleteI hope I can produce and write a great essay that covers all the areas needed. Sometimes I forget to touch basis in areas I am not too skilled on and it can be time consuming and stressful.
DeleteDiscussing Stage 3 of the writing process was very useful to me. I am learning to sharpen my essays to look sharp and clean! Im glad that we're all learning how to fix our essays together!
DeleteI agree as well. Today was quite smooth but also very helpful. It refreshed my memory about the writing process.
DeleteI agree. Going over editing really helped refresh my mind.
DeleteIn today's activity I learned a lot about editing and the final processes of writing an essay.I learned today that it is more advisable to edit using a computer checker because checking ourselves has a higher chance of us missing grammar errors and simple spelling checks.i also learned that the argumentative essay requires much more research than an expository essays. one of the many things that i also found out today is that writing can also be a form of release, in the activity of presenting the final drafts of our free writes. in conclusion, i learned many things from the class session today, that i can apply solely to my writing, and also to my personal view towards it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Writing an essay is definitely the most logical and efficient way to write essay because it checks for errors and looks much better than writing by hand.
DeleteToday's activities were very informative. We learned more about the writing process, and I got to learn a few more names as my classmates read aloud! After the lecture, we got to post on our class blog. I love posting on the class blog because its very soothing, and it's awesome talking to my fellow classmates!
ReplyDeleteI agree. The writing process today was very informative! Thanks Deion you always know how to make a bro feel appreciated!
DeleteI'm still learning who my classmates are. It is nice how we say our names first before we read anything.
DeleteI agree this class blog is another way of networking for our peers. Some people may be a bit shy in person but posting on each others blogs daily will sort of make us more comfortable with each other before conversing physically.
DeleteEntering Blogs are new to me. Posting blogs gives me an opportunity to learn who's who and how our society has changed and developed through technology. Interacting through the internet is a benefit but come time for public speaking can and will be entirely different. Also, another important opinion of mine is we should try to interact with each other in person. It is to keep it real and distinguish the difference between on line personality and real life people personality. Yes, some people are shy but that can all change. :)
DeleteI agree that today's class was very informative
DeleteToday's class was very informative. I also got to learn some more classmates' names.
DeleteToday's topics were very helpful on informing me on how to differentiate between the different types of essays, most especially on how an argumentative essay is different from all the others. Unlike the other essays, extensive research is needed in order to strongly state your point and to get your idea understood by the reader. I really liked today's activity's because argumentative essays are my personal favorites. Through these essays you get to research on your topic and learn more on it as you go along. Editing is also a very crucial part in finalizing your essay. Because of this you can reread your essay and determine what needs to be changed, what should stay, and what should be taken out.
ReplyDeleteI agree. When looking at the two types of essays, an argumentative is much more research heavy than most essays.
DeleteWow Christian, you said that so perfectly. I could not have said it any better myself! I also can agree with you that argumentative essays are my personal favorite because the essay can get really interesting!
DeleteI often enjoy editing others papers a lot more than my own. It usually takes someone else to point out my grammar errors and other common mistakes one might miss so easily. Today"s activity on the argumentative/persuasive essay was really simple to read, just following the text, but I am sure its probably going to be a challenge for me more than the others if not the same. For the most part, editing plays a huge role in our everyday lives in every form of communication. It's a way of putting all the missing pieces together to get a certain level of understanding that is appropriate and easier for you.
ReplyDeleteEditing someone else's essay is fun and helpful for other fellow writers because helps us find for errors, fixes our mistakes, and it gives us more practice in writing.
DeleteToday's activities were meaningful because I learned about argumentative essays. I have not thought that essays have various ways to be written. Learning about an argumentative essay, my skills of writing essay are more grown. I would be able to edit my essay clearly before I finish it. Learning about editing skills in essay, my essay would have a certain main idea, and it would not have too much errors of grammar, spelling, and word. It was a meaningful day.
ReplyDeleteThat is very true about editing skills. We can always go back and fix our errors while editing.
DeleteI agree. I was unsure what to look for during our peer evaluations for editing but todays class showed me exactly what to look for.
DeleteYep! Essays can be written in numerous ways. Editing is essential because we all make errors or we may go back and want to make some changes or rewording to make it sound sophisticated/educated.
DeleteEditing your essay definitely helps fix your essay to look more clean and sharper! It's very important to go back and edit your essay to reduce the risk of having grammar, spelling, and word errors.
DeleteYou're right I tend to forget that there are different ways to write papers. Today's class period was very beneficial.
DeleteToday's topic gave me a lot of ideas for what topic I could use for my test that will be coming up. It really puts me in deep thought when choosing topics because I want a topic that has a lot of information and is something that interests me. I like how we share our examples during class to give us an idea on how to edit our essays better.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Choosing a topic is something you should really think about before deciding. You should always choose a topic based off of what you already know on the matter and if it interests you.
DeleteThats exactly why I have not chosen a topic yet. I want to do some research on the topics and see which topic provides the most information for research.
DeleteThat is very true! Today gave us an even larger selection of topics to choose from for our test. It definitely helps to share in class because we can all learn from each other,
DeleteThat's exactly what I'm debating on too. A good topic that has sufficient support. I also learned that we can't use the wikipedia as a citation piece. I was about to do so just because wikipedia is a good information source.
DeleteI totally agree that finding a topic is going to be hard because you really do want one that comes with a lot of information.
DeleteI agree. I find that having a topic I'm interested it helps me write better.
DeleteI feel writing the argumentative essay is among the most challenging styles of essays due to the reliable research that we need to provide to support our thesis. I cant choose a topic so fast until I do research on possible topics that I would be interested in so I can determine which has the most reliable information. We also went over editing. Im glad we got to go over the editing portion so that I know exactly how to edit for peer reviews.
ReplyDeleteI agree. what with all the facts that we have to research for an argumentative essay, it could be much more challenging than the other essays.
DeleteThat's probably one of the most issue writers come across when writing an argumentative essay. Just don't think too much on it. Your writing should flow freely in order to avoid writer's block. I recommend you pick a good topic that you find interesting and that has sufficient research too. Good luck
DeleteI agree. Writing this essay may probably be the hardest essay we will write this semester. It's good that you want to do more research on the topics given so that you could find one that you are interested in the most.
DeleteThis is very true, writing this essay is probably going to be the most difficult.
DeleteI also like editing others essay/work more than mine. I find it easier and entertaining to read as well. Correcting others work also gives me ideas and contribute to their writing process.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Editing others papers is fun to read while you learn from their own paper. You learn to change the mistakes that you may have made on your own paper.
DeleteI agree that editing other papers gives me ideas.
DeleteI agree that editing other student's papers would help you improve as a writer. The more you read people's essays or novels, the more you will learn from.
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